In a weekend of late birthday celebrations today it was Nate’s turn to celebrate his. However, he wasn’t nearly as tardy as me being only about five weeks overdue instead of three months! We had such a good time at Ping Pong the last time we came here that he opted to repeat it again but this time taking advantage of the Lazy Sumdays offer of all you can eat dim sum for £16.50. The weather today was atrocious so actually it was the perfect spot to spend the afternoon drinking and eating. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Ping Pong have the most amazing drink concoctions. Even though I was limiting myself to the ice tea coolers it was still absolutely delicious. The kumquat mojitos on the other hand were going down a treat with everyone else.

For today’s event we were once again in the upstairs section near the bar which provided much more comfortable and casual seating than in the downstairs restaurant section. Surprisingly, though it was absolutely heaving downstairs, we pretty much had all of upstairs to ourselves. Unfortunately this had a little bit of an impact on the service we received. Our female waitress, admittedly only on her second shift on the job, was absolutely rubbish as she gave us confusing instructions, wasn’t very friendly and just generally didn’t pay sufficient attention to our table so we were often left waiting with empty drinks and an empty table (that is, once we’d gobbled down the round of dishes we’d ordered.) However I have to give special mention to one of the floating male waiters – not only was he aware enough to realise that the temperature upstairs was tremendously warm (immediately adjusting the air-conditioning system), he was extremely friendly and he tried to give us the better deal on our bill by showing us what our bill would be with ordinary charging and under the Lazy Sumdays offer. Turns out without the deal our bill would have been cheaper (which was a great surprised because its fair to say we definitely pigged out.) Of course this was a bit against Ping Pong sop, though he didn’t realise it at the time, and as a result we ended up getting an even better deal because to make up for it although they eventually had to charge us under the Lazy Sumdays offer they took off one person’s meal meaning it was the cheapest deal yet! Bargain.